Question
Note to players: Original-language term required. A 1905 law enacting this principle sparked the Morizot affair and the “Second Textbook War.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this constitutional principle whose groundwork was laid out in the Ferry (“fay-REE”) Laws. A 2004 act based on this principle bans students from wearing items like headscarves.
ANSWER: laïcité ("lah-EE-see-tay") [prompt on French secularism]
[10h] Despite prime minister Émile Combes’s work on the 1905 law, he was forced to resign before its passage due to this event. Louis André’s prevention of the advancement of Catholic military officials was exposed in this event.
ANSWER: the Affair of the Cards [or L'affaire des fiches; or the Affair of the Casseroles]
[10e] French discourse regarding the separation of church and state reached its peak during this late 19th to early 20th-century affair, in which a Jewish French officer was wrongfully convicted of treason.
ANSWER: Dreyfus affair [or affaire Dreyfus]
<History - European History>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 67% | 17% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 100% | 20% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| BHSU ReFantazio | BHSU Rebirth | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Notre Dame | Clown Squad | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Music to Help You Stop Smoking | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | Northeast by Northwestern | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WashU | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| hawk two of | Clown Senpais | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | Banned from ARGOS | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Hu up Jinning they Tao | Import Pandas | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| |madam| | Pahkin' the Ahgo | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cien Años de Quizboledad | Cambridge | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Simple Vibes | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Limp Francekit | Defying Suavity | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| just one more half-dot bro | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Walston et. al. | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | Cope is the thing with feathers | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | Cry of the Common Loon | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford+ | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| throw away your cards, rally in the streets | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Thompson et al. | UBC | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |